The Primary 7s have had a busy and challenging week!

For writing, we wrote a descriptive piece of writing about the National Museum of Scotland. We enjoyed carrying out research on the attraction and we were able to use our plans to help us with our final draft.

For spelling, we have been working on the short o with other graphemes. Our root words were: sock, song, spot, stock, stop, occasion, person, region

We have continued to look at decimals in maths and have been rounding decimals to the nearest whole number and nearest tenth. We have also been learning how to add numbers with one or two decimal place.

We continued with our Charles Rennie MackIntosh stained glass art. We have displayed these in our window and they look wonderful.

This week we also had to vote for our Eco Reps and Pupil Council Representatives. Everyone had the opportunity to stand and had some time to prepare a little speech to say why they would be the best candidate for the role. We were all very impressed by the high standard of speeches and it was a very close result. Our Eco Rep is Charlie Harding and our Pupil Council Rep is Anna Maciver. A big well done to everyone who put themselves forward!

Consider the questions below and post your responses:

1. What did you enjoy most this week? Why do you think that was?
2. Was there anything that frustrated you? What did you do to help yourself?
3. Can you think of something that a classmate did that was kind?
4. What are you looking forward to next week at school?

Another busy week here in P6. We have:

-Revisited addition in maths

-Learned about 3D shapes and created skeletons using matchsticks and plastecine. We had to show resilience in this task.

-Researched Dame Kelly Holmes in order to write a description text next week.

-Learned about the artist Frida Kahlo and have started to create a portrait using her style.

-Continued our class novel and answered literal, evaluative and inferential questions.

-Learned about the importance of honesty and looked at one of Aesop’s Fables, “The boy who cried wolf” to explore this further.

-Focused on the short “i” sound in spelling.

-We looked at tension in science and exploired how tension is important for athletes who run using blades in the paralympics.

Leave a comment below to say one thing you enjoyed this week and why.

Mrs Brown and Mrs Smith

Literacy

Spelling practice. Use some of the short vowel words we have learned this term in these activities.

Write a short story using as many of the words as possible.

Create a word search using either squared paper or an online template. https://thewordsearch.com/maker/

Writing in paragraphs. We have learned how to organise our writing into paragraphs. We take a new paragraph when we change person, place, time or subject.

Write a description of your favourite toy, your pet or your bedroom. Include at least three paragraphs.

Numeracy

We have been working on place value and addition. Play these games to practice number bonds. https://www.mathplayground.com/number_bonds_20.html

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Show your understanding of place value by completing these questions.

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3D shape. We have been learning to recognise 2D and 3D shapes. Go on a shape hunt around your house, garden or local area. Take  photographs of the shapes you see and label them with their name.

We have been exploring the properties of 2D shapes in class. We used our knowledge to create tessellation designs. We had fun completing them and are really pleased with the results.

Our week started with watching a pheasant out the window. Can you answer these questions about pheasants? Reply below!

Is it a male or female pheasant? How do you know?

Are pheasants native to the UK?

Which children’s novel features pheasant poachers?

This week we started to create our shoe box dragon in line with our novel study, The boy who grew dragons.

We explored our sense of hearing, learning about the ear and how sound-waves are transmitted to information in the brain.  We also explored some basic British Sign Language to understand communication of the deaf.

There was lots of fun to be had measuring with various tools and exploring standard and non standard units of measure.

In Primary 2 we have done quite a mixture of learning this week.

We moved on to learning about parts of the ear in Science but, we have to do some more exploring of the ear next week.

We still had some Art work to do with the eye. So, we used 2 different types of media for this. First of all we thought about what we can see with our eyes and we made this picture with coloured pencils and black fine line with felt pen.

Next we made an eye collage with material. We thought this looked like an easy activitiy but, we had to do lots of problem solving and we had to work hard to make our cutting neat and accurate. It was fun using the tiny material scissors to cut through the fabric.

We had fun comparing and contrasting our two styles of eye Art.

We also made our Christmas card designs even though it is still September! We really enjoyed listening to  the Christmas music as we designed them.

In practical Maths we measured objects with straws and small cubes. It was fun being active in our learning and using different things to measure with.

Our teacher modelled some writing for us this week and our focus was on a best friend. We had already made a labelled plan and this helped us when we wrote on the lined paper. Although we find writing challenging we are so proud of ourselves when we read it over at the end and look at the lovely handwriting we have too.

We are going to add the last line to our writing on Monday. Then it will be fun to share our writing with our friends.

We have been becoming more creative in our play this week and we have been using our imaginations to add some props to the dragon models and making our own maps for the cars.

We did a whole class vote for Recycling rep and we are looking forward to getting started in our new roles of responsibility.

Yet another busy working week for Primary 2. Well done everyone!

Here are our spelling words

Eden thought up this sentence to include all of the words!
‘I wish I had the skill to sing lyrics to my song while eating pancakes and syrup in the cygnet infested water while not missing the finish of the swimming race.’ Brilliant!

We are looking at maps of Scotland to locate towns, cities and power stations.

Others highlights include

• designing a gingerbread house Christmas card
• adding doubles
• adding several small numbers
• writing a description of a castle
• recognising 3D shapes in the world
• problem solving strategy ‘draw a picture’
• voting for Rosie as Pupil Council rep and Vivienne for Sustainable Squad rep

…and our forced perspective photographs!

Check out our word cloud below which has been added to by both P6 and P6/7. The larger the words the more popular they have been with us this week.

What has been your highlight this week and why?